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To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

— Teresa de Lauretis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

— Swami Vivekananda

I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.

— Bernard Sumner

The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.

— Piet Mondrian

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

— Scott Reed

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

— Rudolf Arnheim

A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

— Karl Jaspers

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

— Ambrose Bierce

✗Opposing Perspectives

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

— Tom G. Palmer